TechNode

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

On Monday, Chinese AR (Augmented Reality) tech company Rokid marked its 10th anniversary with a product launch in Hangzhou, China, where CEO Misa Zhu unveiled its latest innovation, Rokid Glasses, created in partnership with Chinese eyewear brand Bolon.

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The Verge

JULY 5, 2021

That’s about what you’d pay each month on a four-year lease for a comparable Volvo XC40 which is built upon the same platform as the 01. Lynk & Co has sold a non-shareable 01 model in China since 2017. To be successful, car-sharing companies must maintain a magic ratio of vehicles-to-borrowers.

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TechNode

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Chinese video streaming platform Bilibili has proposed the goal of doubling its current daily active users (DAU), according to local media outlet LatePost. Notably, in response to the growing impact of short video platforms, Bilibili has bet big on shorter vertical videos over the past year, aiming to attract new audiences.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

And Sony’s new controller may well be so good in actual use that it becomes a genuine reason to prefer playing cross-platform games on the PS5. Ashley Carman: “In 2017, when we started to do this skateboard crowdfunding, we [had] to deemphasize the truth that we’re from China,” he says. More console news. ?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Several more Chinese tech companies round out the top slots: Baidu , which runs Chinas top search engine, started offering driverless taxi services last summer in select cities and is already outperforming Googles Waymo robotaxis where it operates. A handful of 2025 honorees focus on ecological innovations. Apollo Go provided approximately 1.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

“With over 40 million users across Brazil, as well as Mexico and Colombia,” the fintech company’s LTV/CAC ratio is central to its success, they found. As Yahoo leaves China, an accelerating stream of exits. As of today, TechCrunch is no longer available to readers inside China. Is China building the metaverse?

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

With Amazon , members focused on two key areas: the company’s controversial use of data about third-party sellers on its platform to inform the development — and promotion — of its own products; and the proliferation of counterfeit goods on the site, and the harms that causes for buyers and sellers. Was it to eliminate a competitor?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

Tesla has also cut prices on the now-aging models 3 and Y amid slowing electric-vehicle demand globally and rising competition, especially in China, where EVs start below $10,000. Tesla still trades at huge premiums, as measured by forward price-to-earnings ratios. A high ratio suggests shares might be overpriced.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

By now, almost everyone accepts that social platforms have a role to play in protecting our democracy — as do average citizens, journalists, and the government itself. None of these are issues a tech platform can solve. But because of their perceived power, the platforms are under strong pressure to take decisive action in response.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

For big tech platforms, one of the more urgent questions to arise during the pandemic’s early months was how the forced closure of offices would change their approach to content moderation. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

After producing the videos with Clipchamp, creators can choose between different output styles and aspect ratios for popular social media networks, making it a popular tool for online marketers. In 2018, it acquired social learning platform Flipgrid, which used short video clips for collaboration. Image Credits: Clipchamp.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

The story picks up with Nick Statt in The Verge : The Twitter accounts of major companies and individuals have been compromised in one of the most widespread and confounding hacks the platform has ever seen, all in service of promoting a bitcoin scam that appears to be earning its creator quite a bit of money. Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET).

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

We know that China, Iran, Russia, Turkey, and North Korea are using bot networks to amplify narratives all over the world, says Ran Farhi, CEO of Xpoz , a threat detection platform that uncovers coordinated attempts to spread lies and manipulate public opinion in politics and beyond. A lie repeated often enough becomes truth.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

“To ensure that these signals are used equally and fairly for all sites, we use signals that are not specific to any one site or platform. Therefore, the number of views, likes or comments a video has received on a given platform is not a factor in our ranking systems.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Anyway, along with the other big tech platforms, Facebook is currently involved in a bunch of regulatory fights over privacy and competition issues. In any case, with antitrust fever in the air, all the platforms are following in Cassius’ lead. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

They said that although tattoos remained taboo in China, moderators in the U.S. In its early days, TikTok took very blunt strategies, all in the sake of trying to keep the platform as positive as possible,” Eric Han, the app’s US head of safety, told the Journal. could allow small ones, such as little butterflies. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

China is moving quickly to launch a similar idea in the coming months,” he warned. “If Later that year, he said that it was important not to let China set the rules for the internet in the rest of the world, arguing that the country’s values aren’t democratic. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Because it’s going to be worse – we’re going to have to give China billions of dollars for the privilege of having TikTok operate on US soil.”. As recently as April, Zoom was caught rerouting external video calls through China , a behavior far more serious than anything we’ve seen from TikTok.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Was this an example of what Facebook would call, on its platform, “ coordinated inauthentic behavior ”? It talks a big game about inclusion and platform integrity, but the reality has often been found to be running far behind the hype. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Industry. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Let’s check in with Sarah Perez, writing last week at TechCrunch : A new study on kids’ app usage and habits indicates a major threat to YouTube’s dominance, as kids now split their time between Google’s online video platform and other apps, like TikTok, Netflix and mobile games like Roblox.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The event, which was previously called Oculus Connect, gives the company an annual opportunity to discuss the latest advances in next-generation computing platforms. But a summer of escalated tensions with Apple have helped to make the case: if you want to control your own destiny, you have to own your platform.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

Eventually platforms banned the Tide Pods challenge, and the mania around their consumption subsided. But the story posed questions to platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter that they have struggled to answer ever since. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

For some vocal subset of Facebook’s user base, the primary concern is that the platform allows too much speech. Instead, the decision was based on Spiegel’s Sunday memo to his team , which said the company “cannot promote accounts in America that are linked to people who incite racial violence, whether they do so on or off our platform.”.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly and building lots of different products,” he wrote. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Seeing all this and the pace that new mobile apps seem to be coming out from other companies makes me think we’re moving very slowly.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As Alexis Madrigal notes , condemning the platforms together comes “uncomfortably close to admitting that mobile communications pose fundamental challenges to societies across the world.” If you’re going to argue that social platforms are uniquely responsible for the fraying of society, you have to show your work.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. The information will allow the public to track how much each candidate is spending on political ads on the platform. Anti-vaxxers have posted violent, horrific comments and death threats to vaccine advocates on the platform. Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC).

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

The Digital Forensic Research Lab reports: Approximately 13 hours prior to the shootings, a Facebook page that has since been removed by the platform actively solicited armed individuals to protect neighborhoods that evening. The platform is also dealing with an influx of spam, according to their latest transparency report.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

In their introductory remarks, Murphy and her team write: While the audit process has been meaningful, and has led to some significant improvements in the platform, we have also watched the company make painful decisions over the last nine months with real world consequences that are serious setbacks for civil rights. [.].

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Here’s Olivia Solon at NBC News : A group of about 25 experts from academia, civil rights, politics and journalism announced Friday that they have formed a group to analyze and critique Facebook’s content moderation decisions, policies and other platform issues in the run-up to the presidential election and beyond. Sara Fischer / Axios ).

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

The big social platforms, who were once loath to intervene in matters of political speech, are getting much more comfortable with the idea. One, even if temporary, here’s an Amazon-owned streaming service de-platforming the president of the United States. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

On the other hand, if ByteDance is forced to give up control, China seems likely to block the deal. Last week, I wrote that TikTok’s deal with Oracle was a bet that Trump would cave on concerns over China. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. does not seem like a bad bet?”.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

The report “found that Google had at least 90% market share in the tools publishers use to serve ads; between 40% and 60% of the market for supply-side platforms, or SSPs, the tools publishers use to accept bids from exchanges; and between 50% and 70% of demand-side platforms, or DSPs, the tools advertisers use to bid for digital ads.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

All of it is basically in keeping with how American social platforms manage these concerns, though it’s worth noting that 2-year-old TikTok built this infrastructure much faster than its predecessors did. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Trending up : Google is giving more than $8.5

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

And here’s a story about an employee of the popular game platform Roblox who was bribed by a hacker to look up users’ personal information. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. The company expects to bring the new video feature to its platform in early August. Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Both President Trump and Joe Biden have called for the end of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act , which protects tech companies in most cases when their users post something illegal on their platforms. Lawmakers,” she writes, “could use Section 230 as leverage to encourage platforms to adopt a broader set of responsibilities.”

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

One of the more hopeful developments at tech platforms this year has been their investment in removing misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. A piece of anti-vaccination agitprop catchily titled “Plandemic” racked up millions of views before it was spotted and taken down by the platforms in May.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

While it started as a tool for activists to manage their activity on social platforms, founders Brandon Silverman and Matt Garmur realized that the real money was in helping publishers master Facebook. But given the power of the platform, it seems more than fair to ask what they are seeing. I don’t want to keep doing this!)

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